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be tall, dark and handsome. It was a throwback to Viking days when blond strangers arriving on your doorstep meant trouble. (I wondered where those blond jokes came from).

It was also a tradition that you should clear all your debts before you saw the New Year. This was to be a clean break, a fresh start. (What a great concept seeing that we are all in debt up to our ears).

The idea of firecrackers on New Year's Eve was brought to the New World by Celts.

Bond fires were lit in Scotland and, a traditional "Calling of the Clans." Scots came from every nook and cranny, hurling their torches onto a massive heap of wood. As the flames joined and reached toward the sky, battle cries filled the night air. Once all the Clans were announced and accounted for, the festivities began.

I guess the Scots' blood in me runs thick as I have always, for some reason, not been fully spirited when it comes to the Christmas holidays. The commercialism it stirs in all of us. The birth of Jesus gives it a great symbolical meaning, but historians agree Jesus was not born on December 25th. He was either born in the Fall or Spring. No one really knows when Jesus was born.

So I have thought for years Christmas was a pagan idea we celebrate.

From the Babylonian times of the Old Testament stands the epitome of everything that is godless or perverse. In the New Testament, Babylon becomes Rome. The Roman Empire embodies the pagan beliefs and practices of ancient Babylon, and we in America are repeating history, like we never learned it, and are becoming like the Rome of yesteryear.

The American Empire, as we know it, is following the path of Rome. Our once democratic way of life is transitioning into a beast of an animal. Our society is breaking up piece by piece, and the terrorists in the East are having a field day with it.

You can see it happening all over America as "Christ" is being taken out of Christmas. People prefer now to say "Happy Holidays." The Christmas we once knew as children is taking a backseat to other religions or non-religious people.

Since it is a pagan celebration to begin with, it is time to break with the old traditions.

A Happy Hogmanay sounds better, at least to us Scots-Americans.

God bless us all since we can all trace our beginnings back to God. What a great family tree!

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